The tourism sector in Japan experienced a record-breaking July, with 3.43 million foreign visitors. Thus, marking a 4.4% increase year-over-year. Despite the declines in arrivals from Hong Kong and South Korea due to typhoon disruptions and earthquake concerns. Even then, the growth was sustained by a weak yen and increased visitors from China and the US.
Japan’s tourism boom continued in July with record arrivals for the month despite a steep drop in visitors from Hong Kong due to typhoon-related flight disruptions and jitters about possible earthquakes, the tourism board said on Wednesday. Arrivals of foreign visitors for business and leisure reached 3.43 million, a 4.4 per cent increase from the same month last year and the highest number of any July in Japan, the Japan National Tourism Organisation said.
During the month, the number of visitors from Hong Kong fell 36.9 per cent, and arrivals from South Korea dropped 10.4 % which contributed to the slowest monthly growth in rivals so far this year, the data showed. Contributing factors included typhoon-related flight disruptions affecting Hong Kong and social media chatter over recent earthquakes. This has impacted travel sentiment from both markets, as per the JNTO.
A persistently weaker yen, however, continued to fuel growth from other key markets, offsetting some of the decline. Visitors from mainland China increased by 25.3%, while arrivals from the US rose by 10.3%. For the first few months of 2025, Japan welcomed 24.9 million tourists, a 1.4% increase from the same period in 2024.
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